WoRMS taxon details
Allostichaster Verrill, 1914
AphiaID: 178783
AphiaID: 178783
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Stichasteridae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Stichasteridae | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Clark, A.M. and M.E. Downey. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall: London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] additional source: Mah, C.L., D.G. McKnight, M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Ameziane, D.J. Vance, A.N. Baker, H.E.S. Clark, and N. Alcock. 2009. Phylum Echinodermata. In Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch; 371-400. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Allostichaster capensis (Perrier, 1875) Species Allostichaster farquhari McKnight, 2006 Species Allostichaster hartti (Rathbun, 1879) Species Allostichaster insignis (Farquhar, 1895) Species Allostichaster palmula Benavides-Serrato & O'Loughlin, 2007 Species Allostichaster peleensis Marsh, 1974 Species Allostichaster polyplax (Muller & Troschel, 1844) Species Allostichaster regularis H.L. Clark, 1928 Species Allostichaster hebes (Verrill, 1915) accepted as Allostichaster capensis (Perrier, 1875) Species Allostichaster inaequalis Koehler, 1923 accepted as Allostichaster capensis (Perrier, 1875) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Link | To GenBank | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Remark: Type species: Asteracanthion polyplax Müller & troschel, 1844 by original designation (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178783 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Allostichaster Verrill, 1914. In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=178783 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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